I don't want to write any more BDSM fic for awhile. I know I'm pigeon holed but I've always written a huge range of stories - even het and gen *gasp!*. And lots of just plain ol' slash without any BDSM.
Also, I've found as I've got older that I'm less interested in just doing "Tony and Gibbs do BDSM" as a plotline. That of and by itself doesn't interest me. I want some kind of underlying hook - which of course in this fic was Tony's past and his issues and how that played out within the BDSM scenario.
But I think psychology and angst and h/c are more interesting to me per se than BDSM. Don't get me wrong - I love writing and reading BDSM and especially spanky fics (that's a given!) but I think you encounter difficulties when you try and do it as anything other than a very boring scenario which ticks all the required fandom boxes for how it should be presented. And I have NEVER been interested in just ticking boxes.
Also, I've really just explored it to death in a way. I think if I did any more BDSM it would be in the BDSM verse because that's my creation and however much some folk might hate it, at least it's mine and I can let my imagination fly over there. I want that freedom - I don't want my imagination fettered.
I think even fanfic as a medium is becoming restrictive to me in terms of that and have thought for a few months that 2M would be my last long story for a bit. I don't rule out smaller ones, but I'd like to look at writing an OC novel next.
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Also, I've found as I've got older that I'm less interested in just doing "Tony and Gibbs do BDSM" as a plotline. That of and by itself doesn't interest me. I want some kind of underlying hook - which of course in this fic was Tony's past and his issues and how that played out within the BDSM scenario.
But I think psychology and angst and h/c are more interesting to me per se than BDSM. Don't get me wrong - I love writing and reading BDSM and especially spanky fics (that's a given!) but I think you encounter difficulties when you try and do it as anything other than a very boring scenario which ticks all the required fandom boxes for how it should be presented. And I have NEVER been interested in just ticking boxes.
Also, I've really just explored it to death in a way. I think if I did any more BDSM it would be in the BDSM verse because that's my creation and however much some folk might hate it, at least it's mine and I can let my imagination fly over there. I want that freedom - I don't want my imagination fettered.
I think even fanfic as a medium is becoming restrictive to me in terms of that and have thought for a few months that 2M would be my last long story for a bit. I don't rule out smaller ones, but I'd like to look at writing an OC novel next.